SUNDAY SPORTS

The Blue Jays are in first place in the AL East after a dominant 9-1 victory over the visiting Orioles. Toronto’s offence errupted for a seven-run fifth inning to back a solid start from left-hander J.A. Happ. Happ earned his eighth straight win and is 14-3. Devon Travis went deep for the Jays.

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Mitch Moreland homered with two outs in the ninth inning to give the AL West-leading Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Kansas City Royals. That came two nights after he homered twice in a 3-2 win in the series opener against the stumbling defending World Series champions.

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Yasiel Puig is expected back in the Dodgers’ starting lineup Sunday against the Diamondbacks. Puig has been limited to three pitch-hitting appearances over LA’s last seven games because of tightness in his right hamstring. Puig is hitting .255 with seven homers and 32 RBIs in 272 at-bats.

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World number 1 Novak Djokovic made easy work of Frenchmen Gael Monfils for a spot in the Rogers Cup men’s final. The Serbian beat the 10th-seeded Monfils in straight sets. Djokovic will face third seed Kei Nishikori of Japan in the final Sunday. Nishikori earned his spot with a straight-sets win over Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka.

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Simona Halep is returning to the Rogers Cup women’s final. The fifth-seeded Romanian beat Germany’s Angelique Kerber in three sets to advance to the final for the second straight year. She will face American Madison Keys. The 10th-seeded Keys beat Slovakia’s Kristina Kucova in straight sets. Last year in the final, Halep retired because of illness, handing the title to Belinda Bencic.

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Skydiver Luke Aikins has become the first person to jump from a plane into a net on the ground without the benefit of a parachute. Aikins jumped from 25-thousand feet in the air. He hit the 100-by-100-foot net perfectly, quickly climbed out of it and walked over to hug his wife, who had been watching with other family members.

(Canadian Press)